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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist

@barnaclebtch.bsky.social

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I like whales, but I'm no whale doctor. Natural born HenchThem PhD researcher plumbing the depths of fandom, ethics, and online science Content™️.

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 3d

Invite me on to @gastronauts.bsky.social so I can present my mid-century jello mold challenge: Great Aspic-tations

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I.G.Y. Azalea @steelydad.bsky.social · 10h

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 1d

cops tackling and marching off with a giant penis, Kristi Noem menacing a chicken she swears is antifa, feds pepper-spraying a frog

ridicule is an extremely effective protest tactic and foil for authoritarianism

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 1d

You call this a sleeveless dress shirt, and while that's not wrong, I think it's more illustrative to call this a haltertop. I hope Skarsgard has encouraged more men to try rockin a haltertop

SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 1d

Newspapers used to stand for something

headline from 1938 Adelaide Chronicle article titled "Gay Crocheted Clown Is Easily Made"
Lede reads:
Any small child would be thrilled to find this gay clown in
her Christmas stocking. The toy is easily and quickly made
from wool in a simple crochet stitch. Either the body or 'head
portions could be used separately for soft balls for the baby.

SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes Ravelry has exactly the thing I didn't know I needed

Ravelry post of a pattern for a "Gay Crocheted Clown" with a black and white illustration of a sort of crocheted snowman style 'clown', a small sphere for a head attached to a larger sphere body

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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 1d

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 1d

More and more every year, telling us we sound like Muppets, asking if we could please quiet down and stop gesticulating so wildly, etc.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Sliwa has been in New York politics for decades and like anyone who has been in New York politics that long he has a deep and abiding hatred of Andrew Cuomo on a personal level

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 1d

Find me two people more deserving of being made into off-brand Muppets than you and me. You can't.

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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 1d

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sort of surprised this didn't happen earlier

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 1d

EW: 🇰🇵DPRK has begun hiding malware on blockchain.

Result, decentralized, immutable malware.

Nearly impossible to remove.

cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not much one for having specific career goals outside of "have one" but I think living the kind of life that results in a Wikipedia portrait like this now a priority for me

From wikipedia caption: Dr. Darold Treffert poses at the Treffert Center in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, holding a puppet created in his likenss by his colleagues, circa 2019

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · Mar 27

been waiting for the cow tools tiny desk

screenshot of a NPR Tiny Desk Concert video featuring the Cow Tools Cow playing Cow Tools. The cow stands with its table of crude tools in an office setting surrounded by shelves jam-packed with records, trinkets, plush toys and various other tchotchkes.

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, same

Keith Littlefield @vb-keith.bsky.social · 1d

I think people legitimately don’t understand how much Portland A: hates being told what to do and B: loves any excuse to get fucking weird about it

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

I hate this book so much lol

It’s unclear whether bioengineering could really resurrect the Neanderthals, but it would very likely bring down the curtain on Homo sapiens.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 3d

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped

a jazz club named "Club Gombe" with a chimpanzee band going nuts on stage and more chimps hooting and hollering at the tables. one empty table has a card on it reading "reserved for Jane Goodall"

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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 2d

based nancy

two panels of a Nancy comic by Ernie Bushmiller. Nancy sees a NOTICE board and then blacks out the T with a pencil so the board reads NO ICE. Nancy smiles.

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 3d

Invite me on to @gastronauts.bsky.social so I can present my mid-century jello mold challenge: Great Aspic-tations

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 3d

He can't keep getting away with this

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 3d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 3d

Also makes me sad for the neighborhood that probably would have preferred she invested in making it a nice local shop again instead!

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 3d

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 4d

So you have to be 32 to face consequences for bigotry, but only 14 to get married to a 48 year old?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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